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Eiichiro Oda's pirate epic is the best-selling manga in history and a Guinness record-holder — the print-media backbone of an anime-industrial complex now spanning Bandai merch, games and a hit Netflix live-action series.
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· Jacob Wagner
No, “The Onion” did not take over our staff for the day. Someone seriously just bought the above painting for $46.5 million this week at a Sotheby’s auction in New York. The artist behind the painting is Mark Rothko, who rose to prominence in the 60s before he committed suicide…
· Riley Schatzle
Brad Kroenig, named one of the top male models of all time by Vogue, managed to push his career into the stratosphere by snagging the attention of legendary fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld. Kroenig, at 36, is no spring chicken in the modeling game, but because of his talents…
· Augustine Reyes Chan
When Drake took the stage at the Apple WWDC 2015 event yesterday to talk about the much-anticipated Apple Music, it was what he wore that garnered the most attention. The “If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late” rapper wore an old Apple varsity jacket that immediately caused a…
· Editorial Staff
Ben Parr has had quite the career. He started his first gig as a lowly writer for rising tech blog Mashable back in 2008, but quickly rose the ranks to become editor-at-large in just three years’ time. Shortly after, he left Mashable and launched DominateFund, an early stage…
· Max Chang
Steve Jobs was known for being many great things: tech visionary, unstoppable entrepreneur and sales genius. He was also a complete asshole as a boss. He expected nothing less than the impossible from the people he worked with. He was known to be the kind of boss that would…
· Max Chang
An entrepreneur has to be a lot of things: determined, creative, sharp and innovative. But which skill is the most important for any entrepreneur? A study out of Penn State and Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland reveals that if there is one skill you should focus on, it’s…
· Alan Van
In Tarantino’s bloodbath masterpiece “Kill Bill,” the mythical Hattori Hanzo sagely tells the Bride, “Revenge is never a straight line. It’s a forest, and like a forest, it’s easy to lose your way … to get lost … to forget where you came in.” Truer words about revenge and its…
· Alan Van
Well, looks like it’s only a short matter of time before we have a full-on war between humans and cyborgs.
· Benny Luo
There are many different types of entrepreneurs- there are tech entrepreneurs, online entrepreneurs, and then there are rockstar entrepreneurs like Rap Genius co-founder Mahbod Moghadam. You’ve probably come across Rap Genius at some point, whether you are looking up lyrics to…
· Max Chang
Any sushi lover knows that not all sushi is created equal. The freshness of the fish and quality of the ingredients used are crucial, but not as much as the skill of the trained sushi chef putting them all together to create edible works of art. But while foodies can easily tell…
· Alan Van
In an interview with the New York Times alongside Huffington Post co-founder Arianna Huffington, Kobe Bryant revealed some of the secrets to his success.
· Max Chang
Some interesting preliminary research suggests that our parking behavior says something about our country’s economic drive, and it may have you parking your car differently after reading this.
· Editorial Staff
In March, Malaysia Airline Flight 370, disappeared suddenly while traveling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Last month, Flight 17 was shot down while flying over Ukraine. With the two tragedies tied to them, Malaysian Airlines has not been the most popular kid in the block. Even…
· Editorial Staff
Vin Baker went from a $100 million NBA career to working behind the counter at Starbucks — and he’s happy about it. Basketball fans may remember Baker as the All-Star 6’ 11” power forward who played for the Milwaukee Bucks and Seattle SuperSonics during his NBA prime. In 2000,…
· Gary Vaynerchuk
Everyone at some point in their life has been nervous about public speaking. It can be one of the most terrifying things to encounter. Getting up on that stage, suddenly you have flashbacks to that fifth grade book report that you definitely didn’t prepare for. But I have some…
· Augustine Reyes Chan
A librarian at a Chinese university stole precious 17th and 20th century pieces of Chinese art and got away with it for years by replacing them with fakes, only to find that his fakes looked so real that they were later stolen and replaced with new fakes. Xiao Yuan, 57, stole…
· Max Chang
Just when you thought the real-life “Game of Thrones” episode going on at Reddit was finished with Ellen Pao’s resignation, former Reddit CEO Yishan Wong dropped another plot twist on the internet: Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian was the one who fired Victoria Taylor, but Ellen…
· Riley Schatzle
Dolly Cohen, dental technician turned badass mouth grill designer, is a mysterious and difficult woman to get a hold of. According to Vogue, Cohen is more difficult to get a hold of than Rihanna — one of Cohen’s many celebrity clients.
· Benny Luo
Brandon Fleisher is a 17-year-old high school senior who has been able to turn $48,000 into $147,000 trading in the stock market. It’s an incredible feat, but even more so when you take into account his age and the endless number of people who have tried and lost tons of money…
· Gary Vaynerchuk
The key to loving your job is to ask yourself one simple question: “What is my biggest strength?” Think about it: so many people are in jobs they hate because they haven’t found that one true passion. They are good at a few things so that’s what they do here and there, but they…
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Franchise · Anime
Eiichiro Oda's pirate epic is the best-selling manga in history and a Guinness record-holder — the print-media backbone of an anime-industrial complex now spanning Bandai merch, games and a hit Netflix live-action series.
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